In simple terms, a dieta is a contract made between a curandero, or student of curanderismo, and a particular plant spirit. The terms of the contract are decided and agreed upon prior to the dieta taking place, and often times the motivation to do a dieta comes at the request or suggestion of the plant spirit, but can also be decided by the person. For instance, in an ayahuasca ceremony or perhaps a dream, a plant spirit may present itself to someone and suggest that he/she do a dieta with it. Another common practice is that a student or curandero feels a connection to a particular plant and decides to do a dieta with it, or a student’s teacher suggests that the student do a dieta.
What we call medicinal plants are among the primary agents by which erring humans are brought back into the ecosystemic fold. They can help bring our own disordered ecologies of body, mind, will, emotions, and social relations into entrainment with their own internal ecologies (their constituents or energetic architecture), which resonate with successively larger and more organized eco-systems. Plants can thereby pull us into harmonic relations with the metabolic functionings of the planet. The planet thereby teaches via the conditions of its healthy functioning. This dharma upwells through the plants and into the understandings and practices of those who are “listening.” It has inspired and guided the world’s great herbalist traditions. Herbalism in its most perennial forms has internalized this dharma and applied it to the microcosm of the human body to understand states of well-being and to treat illness.

This is why dietas are a lot of work and not necessarily “fun”. Healing can be smooth or messy (usually both); this simply reflects the reality of what is being addressed. In a medicine circle, all that is authentic is redeemed and ultimately appreciated. The benefits in engaging this process include a purified, strengthened, and renewed spiritual self. From spirit comes the deepest source of well-being, a self-confidence arising from engagement with the real and the truthful. This is felt as a bliss beyond the usual pleasure-button pushing/pain avoidance strategies of hedonism, and certainly well beyond the Puritan denial of the body’s urge towards physical pleasure. It is a spiritual law that one gets what one pays for. The harder the work, the sweeter the ecstasy. The universe rewards courage (and punishes stupidity). The plants teach the evolution Game, and how to play it successfully. It is a wisdom of transfomation, a gift to humanity, and it is here for the asking.
Es cierto que el aceite de oliva es muy saludable, sabroso y una de las bases de la dieta mediterránea pero… ¡nos pasamos de cantidad! En una dieta equilibrada se recomienda consumir unas 5 cucharadas soperas de aceite de oliva al día a repartir entre cocinar y aliñar. En una dieta para bajar de peso, que por tanto aporte menos calorías, deberíamos reducir a 2 o 3 cucharadas diarias. Esto significa cocinar de manera suave, con pocas grasas y no dejar correr el aceite cuando aliñamos.
It is only by creating an indirect dependence on the land (e.g. modern city life) that nature is easily perceived as “less than” the humans that manipulate it. The world split into the religious and secular is a world judged to have constituents of moral and ethical value (religious) and those of dross (secular), the pure and the impure, the worthy and the worthless. This world view projected onto plants also sees them as having constituents of value (active) and those of dross (inactive). For purposes of utility this can be a useful distinction. But when utilitarianism is raised to a guiding social ethic, an approach to all of the natural world, it cuts off spiritual relations with it.
Las normas para regular la producción y comercialización de estos dos tipos de tratamientos son diferentes. En el caso de un medicamento de venta sin receta, como el orlistat (Alli), la compañía farmacéutica debe proporcionar los resultados del ensayo clínico en humanos a la agencia del medicamento que demuestre la seguridad y eficacia del medicamento en la dosis sin receta.

Great article, Morgan! I’m dieting Ajo Sacha for 4 months and so far it’s been a difficult first month, especially living in the city. My usual distractions are not available to me and I have to cope with the urges as they come along, sometimes really strong and other times I can let them pass….like clouds infront of me. However, I accepted the challenge and made a pact with the plants and the goal is to heal myself and become a better functioning human being! Blessings…..

The process of dieting a plant is an opportunity to learn experientially from the plant world. People have dieted for many years for healing, learning, or to train to become a curandero. It is a process of going into isolation, restricting your food, and ingesting a specific plant teacher every night. Through this, we begin to develop a relationship with this plant, experience its healing, and receive its teachings. It is a learning about who we are, how we can heal, where and what we are holding on to, what is in the way of us being whole, and how to proceed in life on a path more in harmony with what IS.
Los vegetales y las frutas son buenas fuentes de vitaminas y de minerales. Los vegetales y las frutas también tienen un contenido bajo de calorías y son ricos en fibra alimentaria. Los vegetales y las frutas, al igual que otras plantas y alimentos de origen vegetal, poseen sustancias que ayudan a prevenir la enfermedad cardiovascular. Comer más frutas y vegetales puede ayudar a reducir el consumo de alimentos con más calorías, como la carne, el queso y los refrigerios.

Jason or Valko will administer the plant that is being dieted to each guest for 7 nights of the 10 days of the dieta. The plant is taken is by drinking a tea-like drink made from macerated tobacco, or another plant or tree, or a combination of both. Taken this way, tobacco is an extremely powerful purgative and very effective in cleansing the intestines, the blood, and cleaning the body. The root of many illnesses is said to lie in the stomach, intestines, and in the blood, which is the main area that tobacco cleans on the physical level.

Hola, Julia; ting 52 anys peso 71 k medeixo 1,66, fa 5 anys pesaba 87 k. Pel meu comte faig comencar a fer dieta i caminar molt vaig a conseguir em 7 mesos 21k. Pero desde l, 11 – 12-15 fins 11 – 4-18 m, han operat 3 vegades, dues d, hernias umbilicals he tingut D fer molt D repos i e recuperat entre 5 i 6 k. Els vull perdre pero no trobo el moment q faig? Em pots ajudar?
Such a superb article–which also ties in the larger picture of the poignant reality we as a planet are now facing. It brings past, present and future into a oneness that is so deeply necessary to evolve from the separation of time, space and our very Selves–into a shift back to Source. I feel very blessed to be organizing such a dieta this summer, and cherish this work as the backbone of my spiritual transformation. Thank you Morgan for sharing this wisdom. I have read many books on the subject and have never heard it better.
It then describes dietary and behavioral regimens that allow one to move most safely and effectively into working relationships with such plants. These regimens provide strength . To understand plants as capable of communicating the conditions by which we can best relate to them is a . Such an awareness is available to anyone who walks the ways of the earth. One then reaches into the nourishing groundwaters of Spirit. Natural ecosystems are then understood to be the surface manifestations of an underlying culture of spiritual relations. It is a gathering place of diverse life forms with high population density and a limited resource base. Plants can thereby pull us into harmonic relations with the metabolic functionings of the planet. The planet thereby teaches via the conditions of its healthy functioning. Both are necessary for any organism to grow and maintain itself. For purposes of utility this can be a useful distinction. The knowledge that runs this story is now growing like mycelium through the cultural deadwood of the colonizers. These understandings demand action. One must thaw the feeling body to feel pain to its core. normalized to limited conductivity. Only by facing fear is one released from its stranglehold. It is a spiritual law that one gets what one pays for. I came here to find out what would be the best dieta to better facilitate communication with the aya spirit. You have written with lots of love and clarity. We as a collective society need to resonate with the frequency of the earth. This truly was a brilliant article. Thank you Morgan for sharing this wisdom. I have read many books on the subject and have never heard it better. Comments with commercial intent are also not accepted. Please request permission before reproducing any contents of this website.Hope you like my post on google today.